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April 16
1746 - The Jacobite uprising in England ends when Charles "Bonnie Prince Charlie" Stuart is defeated by the Duke of Cumberland.
1789 - President-elect George Washington left his Mount Vernon, Virginia home for his inauguration in New York.
1889 - Actor-comedian Charlie Chaplin was born in London.
1912 - Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
1917 - Lenin returned to Russia after 10 years in exile in Switzerland.
1945 - A Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea torpedoed and sank the ship the MV Goya, which Germany was using to transport civilian refugees and wounded soldiers; it's estimated that up to 7,000 people died.
1947 - Most of Texas City, Texas was destroyed when the French ship Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate, exploded; a nearby ship, the High Flyer, which was also carrying ammonium nitrate and sulfur, caught fire and exploded the following day with the resulting fires and blasts killing nearly 600 people.
1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in which the civil rights activist responded to a group of local clergymen who had criticized him for leading street protests; King defended his tactics, writing, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
1972 - China sent President Richard Nixon two giant pandas as a gift.
1972 - Apollo 16 blasted off on a voyage to the moon with astronauts John W. Young, Charles M. Duke Jr. and Ken Mattingly on board.
1977 - Alex Haley, author of the best-seller “Roots,” visited the Gambian village of Juffure, where, he believed, his ancestor Kunte Kinte was captured as a slave in 1767.
1996 - Britain’s Prince Andrew and his wife, Sarah, the Duchess of York, announced they were in the process of divorcing.
2007 - Virginia Tech student Cho Seung-Hui killed two in a Virginia Tech dorm, then killed 30 more two hours later in a classroom building. His suicide brought the death toll to 33, making the shooting rampage the most deadly in U.S. history; fifteen others were wounded.
2010 - The U.S government accused Wall Street’s most powerful firm of fraud, saying Goldman Sachs & Co. had sold mortgage investments without telling buyers the securities were crafted with input from a client who was betting on them to fail. (In July 2010, Goldman agreed to pay $550 million in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, but did not admit wrongdoing.)
2018 - The New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for breaking the Harvey Weinstein scandal with reporting that galvanized the #MeToo movement.
2020 - The Trump administration gutted an Obama-era rule that compelled the country’s coal plants to cut back emissions of mercury and other human health hazards.
2021 - Jon Ryan Schaffer, a member of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group and a heavy metal guitarist, became the first defendant to plead guilty to federal charges in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
2022 - Russian forces accelerated scattered attacks on Kyiv, western Ukraine and beyond, a sign that the entire country was still under assault despite Russia’s pivot toward mounting a new offensive in the east.
Birthdays
21 - Brynn Cartelli (singer)
22 - Sadie Sink (actress)
27 - Ashly Schwan (model)
28- Anya Taylor-Joy (actress)
29 - Poppy Lee Friar (actress)
30 - Liliana Mumy (actress)
39 - Nate Diaz (MMA fighter)
40 - Claire Foy (actress)
42 - Gina Carano (actress)
48 - Kelli O'Hara (actress/singer)
48 - Lukas Haas (actor)
53 - Peter Billingsley (actor)
56 - Vickie Guerrero (professional wrestler)
59 - Jon Cryer (actor)
59 - Martin Lawrence (actor/comedian)
61 - Jimmy Osmond (singer)
64 - Michael Gill (actor)
70 - Ellen Barkin (actress)
71 - Peter Garrett (singer)
72 - Bill Belichick (football coach)
77 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (basketball player)
89 - Bobby Vinton (singer)
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Today in Sports History - April 16
1929 - The New York Yankees become first MLB team to permanently feature numbers on backs of uniforms; numbers correspond to position in batting order.
1939 - The Boston Bruins beat the Toronto Maple Leafs to win the 1938-39 Stanley Cup Championship. It was the first time the best-of-seven series was used. The championship series had been a best-of-five in previous years.
1940 - The first no-hit, no-run game to be thrown on an opening day of the major league baseball season was earned by Bob Feller. The Cleveland Indians beat the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
1946 - Mel Ott of the New York Giants hits the 511th and final home run of his career.
1949 - The Toronto Maple Leafs became the first NHL team to win three straight Stanley Cups titles.
1953 - The Montreal Canadiens defeat the Boston Bruins to win the Stanley Cup.
1954 - The Detroit Red Wings defeat the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup.
1957 - The Montreal Canadiens defeat the Boston Bruins to win the Stanley Cup.
1961 - The Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Detroit Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup.
1968 - Major league baseball's longest night game was played. The 24 innings took six hours, six minutes to play.
1980 - Arthur Ashe announces his retirement from professional tennis.
1985 - Mickey Mantle was reinstated after being banned from baseball for several years.
1987 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls becomes just the second player in NBA history to score 3,000 points in a season.
1999 - Wayne Gretzky announced his retirement from hockey.
2003 - Michael Jordan played his last NBA game with the Washington Wizards, who lost to the Philadelphia 76ers, 107-87.
2013 - NFL player-turned-broadcaster Pat Summerall died in Dallas at age 82.
2019 - Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson becomes the highest paid player in NFL history with a 4-year, $140 million extension which included a record $65 million signing bonus.
2022 - The first game of the new USFL was played between the Birmingham Stallions and the New Jersey Generals in Birmingham, AL. The game was aired on FOX and NBC.
1746 - The Jacobite uprising in England ends when Charles "Bonnie Prince Charlie" Stuart is defeated by the Duke of Cumberland.
1789 - President-elect George Washington left his Mount Vernon, Virginia home for his inauguration in New York.
1889 - Actor-comedian Charlie Chaplin was born in London.
1912 - Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
1917 - Lenin returned to Russia after 10 years in exile in Switzerland.
1945 - A Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea torpedoed and sank the ship the MV Goya, which Germany was using to transport civilian refugees and wounded soldiers; it's estimated that up to 7,000 people died.
1947 - Most of Texas City, Texas was destroyed when the French ship Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate, exploded; a nearby ship, the High Flyer, which was also carrying ammonium nitrate and sulfur, caught fire and exploded the following day with the resulting fires and blasts killing nearly 600 people.
1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in which the civil rights activist responded to a group of local clergymen who had criticized him for leading street protests; King defended his tactics, writing, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
1972 - China sent President Richard Nixon two giant pandas as a gift.
1972 - Apollo 16 blasted off on a voyage to the moon with astronauts John W. Young, Charles M. Duke Jr. and Ken Mattingly on board.
1977 - Alex Haley, author of the best-seller “Roots,” visited the Gambian village of Juffure, where, he believed, his ancestor Kunte Kinte was captured as a slave in 1767.
1996 - Britain’s Prince Andrew and his wife, Sarah, the Duchess of York, announced they were in the process of divorcing.
2007 - Virginia Tech student Cho Seung-Hui killed two in a Virginia Tech dorm, then killed 30 more two hours later in a classroom building. His suicide brought the death toll to 33, making the shooting rampage the most deadly in U.S. history; fifteen others were wounded.
2010 - The U.S government accused Wall Street’s most powerful firm of fraud, saying Goldman Sachs & Co. had sold mortgage investments without telling buyers the securities were crafted with input from a client who was betting on them to fail. (In July 2010, Goldman agreed to pay $550 million in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, but did not admit wrongdoing.)
2018 - The New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for breaking the Harvey Weinstein scandal with reporting that galvanized the #MeToo movement.
2020 - The Trump administration gutted an Obama-era rule that compelled the country’s coal plants to cut back emissions of mercury and other human health hazards.
2021 - Jon Ryan Schaffer, a member of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group and a heavy metal guitarist, became the first defendant to plead guilty to federal charges in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
2022 - Russian forces accelerated scattered attacks on Kyiv, western Ukraine and beyond, a sign that the entire country was still under assault despite Russia’s pivot toward mounting a new offensive in the east.
Birthdays
21 - Brynn Cartelli (singer)
22 - Sadie Sink (actress)
27 - Ashly Schwan (model)
28- Anya Taylor-Joy (actress)
29 - Poppy Lee Friar (actress)
30 - Liliana Mumy (actress)
39 - Nate Diaz (MMA fighter)
40 - Claire Foy (actress)
42 - Gina Carano (actress)
48 - Kelli O'Hara (actress/singer)
48 - Lukas Haas (actor)
53 - Peter Billingsley (actor)
56 - Vickie Guerrero (professional wrestler)
59 - Jon Cryer (actor)
59 - Martin Lawrence (actor/comedian)
61 - Jimmy Osmond (singer)
64 - Michael Gill (actor)
70 - Ellen Barkin (actress)
71 - Peter Garrett (singer)
72 - Bill Belichick (football coach)
77 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (basketball player)
89 - Bobby Vinton (singer)
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Today in Sports History - April 16
1929 - The New York Yankees become first MLB team to permanently feature numbers on backs of uniforms; numbers correspond to position in batting order.
1939 - The Boston Bruins beat the Toronto Maple Leafs to win the 1938-39 Stanley Cup Championship. It was the first time the best-of-seven series was used. The championship series had been a best-of-five in previous years.
1940 - The first no-hit, no-run game to be thrown on an opening day of the major league baseball season was earned by Bob Feller. The Cleveland Indians beat the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
1946 - Mel Ott of the New York Giants hits the 511th and final home run of his career.
1949 - The Toronto Maple Leafs became the first NHL team to win three straight Stanley Cups titles.
1953 - The Montreal Canadiens defeat the Boston Bruins to win the Stanley Cup.
1954 - The Detroit Red Wings defeat the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup.
1957 - The Montreal Canadiens defeat the Boston Bruins to win the Stanley Cup.
1961 - The Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Detroit Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup.
1968 - Major league baseball's longest night game was played. The 24 innings took six hours, six minutes to play.
1980 - Arthur Ashe announces his retirement from professional tennis.
1985 - Mickey Mantle was reinstated after being banned from baseball for several years.
1987 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls becomes just the second player in NBA history to score 3,000 points in a season.
1999 - Wayne Gretzky announced his retirement from hockey.
2003 - Michael Jordan played his last NBA game with the Washington Wizards, who lost to the Philadelphia 76ers, 107-87.
2013 - NFL player-turned-broadcaster Pat Summerall died in Dallas at age 82.
2019 - Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson becomes the highest paid player in NFL history with a 4-year, $140 million extension which included a record $65 million signing bonus.
2022 - The first game of the new USFL was played between the Birmingham Stallions and the New Jersey Generals in Birmingham, AL. The game was aired on FOX and NBC.